Group: Preliminary Task

Brief:

Try to include the use of:

1.Continuity editing: vary distances and angles, pans, steadicam, handicam, cutaways (motivated cut to cu).

2.180’ rule: ensures correct perspective, shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot.  When could you break this rule and stop the audience becoming disorientated?

3.Two lines of dialogue: consider diegetic sound. Conventional of genre? Enigmatic?
Part of narrative?

4.Opening door: framing, close ups etc

• This is the original planning sheet we did for our preliminary project, as you can see we originally wanted to have a gambling scene with cards and on a table we could flip over in slow motion.

• After some thought we realized that we didn't have any playing cards and neither of us wanted to damage a table or lose any money by flipping one, as an alternative we decided to grab the money off the table and have a game of paper, scissors, stone, giving the film more of a 'spoof' feel to it. 

• Most of the shots we kept in the final production, we kept the ECU of Sam's head dripping with sweat, we kept a shot of the table showing both me and Sam, and we got an over the shoulder shot. 

• We did not manage an over the shoulder shot as the room we were in had a very low ceiling and we didn't want to risk injury to ourselves or the filming equipment. Overall our preliminary project went well and has given us a good feel for the equipment we will be using when we create our real film. 

• You can see our final preliminary piece below :